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f at a critical moment by attempting to revictual Fort Sumter. For four years his ardent mind, practical and full of resources, effectively controlled the department, and at the expiration of those memorable four years he retired without aspiring to any other reward than the satisfaction of having served his country well. In the early part of August there arrived at Fortress Monroe the captain of a merchant-vessel who had been wrecked near Cape Hatteras, on the coast of North Carolina. Mr. Campbell, having been kept three months a prisoner in those parts, brought with him some exact information relative to the contraband trade carried on there and the preparations for defence on the part of the Confederates. Between the ocean and the deeply indented coast of North Carolina stretches a narrow tongue of sand, which describes a convex arc and envelops a vast sheet of water. This inland sea, called Pamlico Sound, which resembles, on a larger scale, the lagoons of Venice, is almost e